barm; sponge
barm Sponge is a hard yeast cake, you make it from the cake. It was about 1/2 inch thick. You soaked it and made sponge with it. It was Royal Dry Yeast - Lever Brothers made it. Up to 60 years ago it was all liquid barm I never made a sponge until I went to Northern Bay (in 1936) [essentially words...
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| Language: | English |
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1970
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/9204 |
| Summary: | barm Sponge is a hard yeast cake, you make it from the cake. It was about 1/2 inch thick. You soaked it and made sponge with it. It was Royal Dry Yeast - Lever Brothers made it. Up to 60 years ago it was all liquid barm I never made a sponge until I went to Northern Bay (in 1936) [essentially words of informant, aged 80] JH 1/70 Used I and Sup Not used Not used |
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